by Richard Powers · ISBN 9782264041449
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«Le temps où nous chantions» is the historical fiction novel by Richard Powers, published by 10-18 in paperback (1045 pages, in French).
1939: Delia Daley, a young Black woman, and David Strom, a German Jew who fled Nazism, meet at a Marian Anderson concert. Their passion for music overcomes convention, and they raise three children in a haven of peace. Jonah seeks his voice as a tenor, Ruth fights with the Black Panthers, and Joseph preserves family harmony through half a century of American history.
Translation by Nicolas Richard of the original 'The Time of Our Singing' (2002). Winner of the WH Smith Literary Award in 2004.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in music, identity, and twentieth-century America.
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
